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># 2b : The economic aspect - Eastern style There are some interesting ideas here. One thing about using dollars is that transfer of dollars brings under the possibility of control and siphoning some off - as interest. A thing which is small scale in the US but rives the feds crazy is barter -- merchant dollars -- where services and goods are traded. This is very hard to tax. Maybe an "oil for food" program has other applications: direct trading of oil for goods without intervening monetary accounting, effectively isolating the transactions from the international arena. If no money is involved it becomes much harder for a power like the US to manipulate the market, and also lessens dependency on the dollar and will effectively flood the market to an extent by releasing those dollars into circulation instead of being tied up in transactional time. A few highly populated nations could have a tremendous effect. I wonder if any would be interested? ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk